By supporting long products along their length and moving them in line with the rack, multidirectional sideloaders, such as ...

Builders are hammering away at more new houses than at any time since before last decade’s foreclosure crisis, and the construction boom is driving up lumber prices. Lumber futures are up more than a ...

Demand for lumber has skyrocketed during the pandemic, sending prices to all-time highs. This video explains what’s driving the lumber boom, who’s profiting, and why those growing the trees aren’t ...

A house in Freeport being planned by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland got a big lift this week. The Habitat chapter said Casco-based Hancock Lumber, with 11 lumber yards in Maine, will donate ...

The US economy is so hot the supply of key materials can’t keep up with surging demand — sparking shortages and price spikes in everything from computer chips and copper to chlorine. Yet doing so ...

U.S. homebuilders are calling on the Biden administration to temporarily lift tariffs on China and Canada to ease supply-chain bottlenecks that are hurting housing affordability. “Until a long-term ...

As U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai prepares to meet her Canadian and Mexican counterparts on Monday to review progress in the new North American trade agreement, she is under pressure from ...